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Autore |
Ward Candace |
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Crossing the line : early creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation / / Candace Ward |
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Charlottesville ; ; London : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Caribbean fiction (English) - 19th century - History and criticism |
West Indian fiction (English) - 19th century - History and criticism |
Creoles - Caribbean Area - History - 18th century |
Colonies in literature |
Plantation life in literature |
Electronic books. |
Caribbean Area In literature |
West Indies In literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-211) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: why creole? why the novel? -- Hortus creolensis: cultivating the creole novel -- "A permanent revolution": time, history, and constructions of Africa in Cynric Williams's Hamel, the obeah man -- "Lost subjects": the specter of idleness and the work of Marly; or, a planter's life in Jamaica -- Recentering the Caribbean: revolution and the creole cosmopolis in Warner Arundell -- Conclusion: the unfinished business of early creole (historical) novels. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"Crossing the Line examines a group of novels by white creoles -- white writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Four novels anchor the study: three anonymously published works, Montgomery; or, the West-Indian Adventurer (1812-13), Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827) and Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica (1828), and E. L. Joseph's Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole (1838). Revealing the contradictions embedded in the texts' constructions of the Caribbean 'realities' they seek to dramatize, Candace Ward shows how these white |
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